There are millions of quotes in the world, some that echo deep in the most beautiful places, some silly and lightful and some, nonsense. Below is an ever growing collection of the ones we like. Thank you to everyone who submitted, please feel free to add below.
Friedrich Nietzsche
There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
Winnie the Pooh
You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
Winnie the Pooh
If the person you are talking to doesn’t appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.
Winnie the Pooh
Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.
Winnie the Pooh
Just because an animal is large, it doesn’t mean he doesn’t want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
The Mayan Elders
The greatest wisdom is in simplicity. It is in love, respect, tolerance, sharing, gratitude and forgiveness. It is not complex or elaborate. And the knowledge of it is free For it is encoded in your DNA. All you need is within you. Find your heart…And you will find your way.
W.B. Yeats
We can make our mind so like still water that beings gather about us to see their own images, and so for a moment live a clearer, perhaps even fiercer life because of our quiet.
A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe.
To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.
Bukkyo
In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.
Albert Einstein
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one… The only real valuable thing is intuition.
Rumi
My dear heart never think you are better than others.
Marianne Williamson
Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.
Marianne Williamson
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
Martin Luther King Jnr
Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve. You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love.
Buddha
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.
Winnie the Pooh
A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
Buddha
Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
Martin Luther King Jnr
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
Anais Nin
Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
Martin Luther King Jnr
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
Steve Jobs
Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes.The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo.
You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them, disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things.
They push the human race forward. While some see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.
Nelson Mandela
If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
Mother Teresa
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Nelson Mandela
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
Marianne Williamson
In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.
Oscar Wilde
Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Nelson Mandela
For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
Ralph Waldo Emmerson
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
Lao Tzu
If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
Lao Tzu
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
Lao Tzu
When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
Gary Player
I was practicing in a bunker down in Texas and this good old boy with a big hat stopped to watch. The first shot he saw me hit went in the hole. He said, “You got 50 bucks if you knock the next one in.” I holed the next one. Then he says, “You got $100 if you hole the next one.” In it went for three in a row. As he peeled off the bills he said, “Boy, I’ve never seen anyone so lucky in my life.” And I shot back, “Well, the harder I practice, the luckier I get.
Martin Luther King
If you want to be important – wonderful. If you want to be recognized – wonderful. If you want to be great – wonderful. But recognize that he who is greatest among you shall be your servant. That’s a new definition of greatness… The thing that I like about it: by giving that definition of greatness, it means that everybody can be great, because everybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You don’t have to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve. You don’t have to know Einstein’s theory of relativity to serve. You don’t have to know that second theory of thermodynamics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love. And you can be that servant.
Traditional folk story
An old Cherokee is teaching his grandson about life. ”A fight is going on inside me,” he said to the boy. “It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One is evil – he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. The other is good – he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. This same fight is going on inside you – and inside every other person, too.” The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather, ”Which wolf will win?” The old Cherokee simply replied, “The one you feed.
Albert Einstein
A human being is part of the whole, called by us ‘universe,’ a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest – a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Albert Einstein
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
Michael Jordan
I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Zen Quote
You can’t wake a person who is pretending to be asleep
Anastasia
All at once, sensing my gaze, the wolf started wagging her tail. Then I began to notice how all the creatures were so delighted when I looked at them with joy and tenderness. How big they were or how far away they were was not important. They were delighted just from my looking at them, or my thinking about them with love. I realized they were just as happy as they had been earlier when I was stroking them with my hand. ”Then I became aware of something. Here was ‘I’ with my hands and feet, and yet there was also this other me, larger than could be shown by someone’s hands. And this larger, invisible entity was also me. That meant every Man was set up just like me. And this larger me was indeed capable of embracing the whole Earth.
Anon
Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.